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Furthermore I guess if you look through the viewfinder with your left eye as I do, I then should leave my right eye with the weaker script.
 
The first thing the optometrist will ascertain is which is your dominant eye ... with me it's my left so I'm a left eye shooter!

Sounds like you're left eye dominant.
 
Keith said:
The first thing the optometrist will ascertain is which is your dominant eye ... with me it's my left so I'm a left eye shooter!

Sounds like you're left eye dominant.
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I must be an odd one cause my right eye is stronger???? But I shoot with my left eye..... thanks for the tip too
 
matt335 said:
I must be an odd one cause my right eye is stronger???? But I shoot with my left eye..... thanks for the tip too
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I'm theorising here but I'd have thought eye-dominance isn't related to acuity unless there's a big difference.

Quick dominance test if you don't know it:
Cross the fingers of your hands at right angles, with both thumbs at 90 degrees. Move them so you leave a small 0-shaped hole. Keeping them like that, sight a distant, small object in the hole by bringing your outstretched arms up, palms facing away and keeping both eyes open. Now close your eyes, alternately. The dominant eye will have sighted the object, the non-dominant one won't see it through the hole.

I think most people are right-eye dominant and I think that's still true of left-handed people.
 
wolves3012 said:
I'm theorising here but I'd have thought eye-dominance isn't related to acuity unless there's a big difference.

Quick dominance test if you don't know it:
Cross the fingers of your hands at right angles, with both thumbs at 90 degrees. Move them so you leave a small 0-shaped hole. Keeping them like that, sight a distant, small object in the hole by bringing your outstretched arms up, palms facing away and keeping both eyes open. Now close your eyes, alternately. The dominant eye will have sighted the object, the non-dominant one won't see it through the hole.

I think most people are right-eye dominant and I think that's still true of left-handed people.
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Thank you wolves, but my ADHD has kicked in and I am totally lost in transmission here, can you draw me a picture?
 
I wore glasses for 40 years before I got my first contacts, and I have a pretty strong case of near-sightedness. I was blown away by how the world looked, it felt like having true binocular vision for the first time in ages, and peripheral vision was a great novelty, too. I recommend that people try them, even if it is not for photography purposes. They helped with various aspects of photography for me, but I do carry reading glasses for dealing with camera controls. The monovision lenses approach sounds quite interesting.
 
I would honestly love to still wear my contacts for photography, but sometime in early 2009 I began catching pinkeye literally within 20 mins of putting in my contacts. I had to replace my camera with a .58 viewfinder camera to see framelines :x.
 
Contact lenses? Nothing better. I have been wearing rigid contact lenses for a total of 45 years! Two years ago, I went to soft lenses and found them to be less sharp and more trouble, not to mention much more expensive!

Never had a problem with them. Never, outside of the pollen season when the pine pollen covers the earth like a yelllow dust storm. But, the soft lenses were not that much better.

So, I am back to the rigids with monovision and could not be happier. YMMV.
 
I wore contact lenses for many years, and they're certainly a lot nicer than glasses when using a camera. But after moving here to a dryer climate that's pretty windy 1/3 of the year, kicking up dust lint & pollens that are not only abrasive but allergic, I developed calluses on my eyes and had to give up the contacts.

More recently I had cataracts removed from both eyes, with the implanted lenses set for monovision. Very satisfactory!
 
weird, seems I am left-eye dominant even though I am a right-eye shooter and right-handed. perhaps I should switch to my left eye for shooting...
 
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